Assembly for wood floors and veneers

ABSTRACT

The invention of this model refers to an assembly to build preferably wood floors or veneers, that which consists of three elements: a metallic profile with a design that allows supporting a wood or similar material plate, a coupling staple that supports a sloping wall of the profile and fits its base on a slot in the width of the wood plate and that allows the adjacency of other floor or veneer plates.

TECHNOLOGICAL SECTOR

This invention belongs to the area of wood constructions, specially theconstruction of floors and veneers with wood plates, although the use ofother similar materials such as plastics or alike is not excluded. Itrefers to the assembly or manual coupling needing the use of fixationtools and materials such as nails, screws, glues and such assemblycomposes for its execution of a metallic profile configured or designedto hold and slide a coupling staple that adjust on a wood plate inside aslot or groove made on the width of such plate.

BACKGROUND

In the field of wood floors and veneers manufacturing the use of gluesand adhesives and fixation tools such as nails, tacks, screws and otheris being traditionally used. Our assembly model and based on traditionaltechniques has envisioned a manual coupling based on three elements thatdo not need any tools or materials for its execution. These threeelements are the wood plate, worked on its width with grooved, a rail orprofile specially designed to allow the assembly and a coupling staplein the wood slot that makes easier to join the other plates that conformthe floor or veneer.

This assembly, as proposed in this application, is designed in such away that the three elements mentioned above and their interrelationguarantee stability and consistency in the construction of hand-madefloors or veneers.

INVENTION TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION AND EXECUTION

Invention shall be understood from the following figures:

FIG. 1 shows a cross-section view of the assembly with the threeelements mentioned above: profile, plate and staple.

FIG. 2 shows a front view of model assembly.

FIG. 3 shows an alternative assembly in which the profile has avariation of design.

FIG. 4 shows a top view with the characteristics of design of thecoupling staple between the wood profile and plate.

Based on FIGS. 1 and 2, the assembly of the new model consists of anextruded aluminum metallic profile (1) with a symmetric conformationwith regard to the central axis with flat sides or bases (A) and (B)that supports on the top base a wood rectangular plate (2) which widthand length has slots (2) in each side, and a piece or staple (3) thatallows the coupling between two wood plates (2) adjacent to theintermediate slot (2).

This staple (3) is an element made of plastic and according to FIGS. 2and 4, it is button-shaped with an spherical slotted cap head (6) heldin an intermediate column that end in a base (7) also slotted with somegrooves (8) on the lower face.

The staple's head or cap (3) makes support contact on a point (4) on aramp or inclination of the profile inner walls (1) with easy sliding onsuch sloping planes, while the rectangular base (7) matches or coupleswith the slot (2) on the wood plate width(2).

Grooves (8) on the staple base (7) serve to assemble the base with woodthrough a slot with a rigidity to counteract oscillating motions on woodplates assembled when they are stepped in the case of floors, as seen inthe partial view of FIG. 2. FIG. 3 shows a variation of design in theprofile(1) in which one wing extends to a wall (59 with an end fold thatacts as a wall framework in the case of veneers, without altering, forexample, the functionality of the other two assembly elements. Staple(3) of assembly used as an example, has a cap-shaped spherical head thatmay have another configuration such as a parallelogram on its head withsloping sides. These staples allow wood coupling not only adjacentlyparallel to the plates but for intersection coupling in any angles whenconforming floors in non-regular polygonal areas. This easiness isbecause the staple in any of the modalities described above, allowsturning supported on the profile sloping wall.

1. Assembly for floors and veneers, to be executed manually, wherein ametallic profile coupling (1) holds a floor or veneer plate (2) that hasalong its width a slot (2) and a staple (3) that supports on its head(6) on the lower side of the profile in the contact point (4) and fitson the base (7) inside the plate (2) slot (2).
 2. Assembly for floorsand veneers according to claim 1, wherein the profile (1) has awing-shaped extension (2) with an end fold.
 3. Assembly for floors andveneers according to claim 1, wherein the staple (3) has grooves on itshead (6) and on the join base (7) it has on one of its side of contactwith the slot (2) grooves (8) that cushion the plates (2) motion.